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POPE PIUS XI

Group 1
OBJECTIVES:

To answer the following


questions…
• What is /are his contribution in
the Church?
• What is he as a Pope?
POPE PIUS XI

• Birth Place: Desio, Italy


• Birth Date: May 31, 1857
• Was: Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti
-a pope who assigned treaty with
Mussolini recognized the Vatican
as an Independent State.
• Papacy began: February 6, 1922
• Died: February 10, 1939
POPE PIUS XI

Issued numerous encycials such as:

1.Quadragesimo
2.Quas primas
3.Rerum novarum
4.Studiorum ducem
POPE PIUS XI

Recorded number of concordats or


“an official agreement, especially a formal contract between the pope and a
national government concerning the religious affairs of a country”
Examples:
“Reichskonkonkordat” with Nazi Germany

Named “Doctor of the Church” due to his powerful writings


POPE PIUS XI

Canonized important saints including…


1. Thomas More
2. Peter Canisius
3. Bernadette of Lourdes
4. Don Bosco
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